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U.S. 19th and 73rd Fighter Squadron P-47s landing on Aslito Airfield, Saipan during World War II

After the battle of Saipan, during World War 2, P-47s of the 318th fighter Group 19th Fighter Squadron are seen flying in from the Carrier, USS Natoma Bay and those of the 73rd Fighter Squadron, flying in from the USS Manila Bay. View from a P-47 approaching Coastline of Saipan Island . Control tower operator on lookout for aircraft. Signal from the tower giving the planes directions for landing. Four P-47s peeling off for landing. P-47s approach and land on Aslito airfield, island of Saipan. Fliers standing around their aircraft watching other planes come in for landing. 19th Fighter Squadron P-47s taxiing into parking area. Pilot talking to the crew chief of his plane. View across airfield showing the demolished hangar building with P-47s in 19th Fighter Squadron's dispersal area. Fuel Trucks and ground crew personnel attend to the arriving aircraft. One of the P-47s carries the name: "Jackie Eilen" and another, the name "Angel." (Note: Although written introduction to this film refers to 11 June, the events depicted occurred after 20 June, 1944. The invasion of Saipan did not begin until 15 June, 1944. Aslito Field was captured on 19 June, 1944. The first P 47 aircraft (a few) arrived on 20 June, 1944 while the Seabees were working to make the field operational.)

Date: 1944, June
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047539
Pastor of African American church congregation speaks about defending America during World War II

Opening scene shows a battlefield wooden cross marking the grave of Private Robert. Woods. His photograph is shown.The narrator is an American Pastor of a predominantly African American congregation speaking from the pulpit about men who served America during World War 2. He cites U.S. Army bomber pilot, Colin Kelly, whose photograph is also seen. The pastor also mentions Meyer Levine, Kelly's bombardier (unseen) and an African American sailor, named Dory Miller, who shot down Japanese aircraft while defending the battleship West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Miller is seen shaking hands with officers on the deck of a Navy ship. Camera focuses on a banner in the church displaying stars for the members of the congregation in the Armed Forces. He leads in a prayer of thanks for "this land which our fathers have helped to build." Camera pans over the congregation. The choir and congregation join in singing "Onward Christian Soldiers." Next, a large formation of African American soldiers marches in a parade. They wear uniforms including M1917 steel helmets, and carry rifles and field packs. Scene updates to African American soldiers marching wearing World War 2 M1 steel helmets. Scene shifts to African American Army Colonel and another officer reviewing marching troops on a snowy field. Next, African American women in the WAC (Women's Army Corps) are seen marching. African American troops are seen, again, parading in World War 1 steel helmets, and then others are seen parading in garrison caps. More views of these various groups parading with a glimpse of mounted cavalry inserted, as well. As the film ends, the background music is the singing of "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho." (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077360
USAAF B-24 bombers drop bombs over target areas in Volcano Island and Yap island in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

U.S. bombings on islands in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Several aircraft in flight. A map showing a flight path from Volcano Island in the Philippines to Iwo Jima in Japan. On 10th August, 1944 : A United States Army air Force B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft in flight. Several B-24s in flight. The aircraft drop bombs over target areas and explosions occur. Smoke rises from the bombed areas. A map showing the flight path to Yap island. On 20th August, 1944 : A B-24 in flight drops bombs over target areas on Yap island. Smoke rises from the resultant explosions.

Date: 1944, August
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675069993
Use of mobile clinic against Syphilis in Georgia, McIntosh, Glynn and Camden, areas in United States.

An awareness film about Syphilis by United States Public Health Service, United States. Film titled 'Three countries against Syphilis'. Map of Georgia. Scenes of areas in coastal Georgia. Atlantic ocean waves breaking on shores south of Savannah, Georgia. View of the old slave hospital building on the grounds of Retreat Plantation in Glynn County, Georgia. Wide panning view of the Sidney Lanier Oak Tree in the marshes of Glynn (Lanier's Oak in Brunswick, Georgia). Fisherman waits on docks and watches fishing boat come in at Brunswick, Georgia. Line of fishing boats at docks. View inside fishery and cannery operations, with rows of women seated in front of conveyor holding shrimp or crab. Filling cans, women use mallets to pound open crab claws and add crab meat to canning operations. Wide view of a large wood pulp mill, with many logs waiting in exterior yard, and smoke coming from plant factory. An industrial plant in Brunswick Georgia is shown where workers distill pine oil and other wood by-products. A man is seen in a production factory pulling wood veneer off of a press for us in wooden boxes. At a syphilis control clinic, a medical technigican takes a blood sample from an African American man. Doctor takes sample at a modern clinic. Doctor puts Neoarsphenamine drug on shelf of dispensary. White doctor or medical technician draws blood from a white patient. African American doctor or medical technician draws blood from an African American man. A free health department clinic is seen where nurses work with multiple patients at one time. African American boys and girls are seen in a school yard. The children run and play outside. View inside health clinic at St. Simons Island Georgia, with nurses and doctors treating patients. A rural doctor treating a man at a home clinic. View deep in a pine forest of working men operating a sawmill to cut Pine logs. Workers at a turpentine still perform tasks to produce turpentine. Mobile health clinic seen traveling via bus on roads in woods. Map shows Georgia, McIntosh, Glynn and Camden, areas covered by mobile clinics. Women walk towards a mobile clinic for an examination. Men loaded on an ox cart. Old man walks towards the clinic. School bus brings patients. The medical vans consist of electric sterilizers, refrigerators, fans and lights. A nurse immunizes a African American boy against Typhoid fever. A nurse takes blood samples for laboratory tests. A doctor examines a male patient.

Date: 1938
Duration: 9 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047048
U.S. soldiers and Marines advance during various combat operations in World War 2; shows ground and aerial battle

Life of U.S. soldiers in various theaters, operating under very difficult conditions during World War II. Soldiers take positions in dense woods and fire rifles during a combat operation. They run and advance in a battlefield. African American U.S. army soldiers load and fire an artillery piece. A planes crashes, but pilot's parachute is seen safely descending. B-26 hit by flak, bursts into flame, part of engine falls away and aircraft spirals out of control on fire. Aircraft shot out of sky by fighter from behind. Glider aircraft noses forward during landing and flips up in the air. Gun camera footage from a U.S. aircraft firing at another aircraft on the ground. The target aircraft explodes and the flying aircraft flys through the smoke and flame directly above it. Soldiers fire at the enemy during what appears to be a battle in the pacific region. Machine gunner directs fire at enemy, and repeatedly hits a corpse lying just in front of the gun emplacement. Marines fire on Japanese positions on a Pacific island. Ruined villages and burning huts are seen, with U.S. tanks passing by. Marines direct flamethrowers into wrecked buildings and fortifications. Close view of machine gun barrel from side, firing rounds. Soldiers during a combat battle in dense woods of varying terrain. Soldiers advancing during battle. Marines direct flamethrowers at targets ahead.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056746
U.S. Naval Task Force 58, including USS Yorktown attacked by a Japanese Kawanishi H8K flying boat in the Pacific.

USS Yorktown CV-10 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Early 1944: Animated map shows the Caroline Islands, Mariana Islands, Gilbert Islands and the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. The U.S. Naval fleet advances from Truk Islands towards an advanced naval base in the Marshall Islands, taken from the Japanese. U.S. ships underway around the fleet anchorage. U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers, battleships, cruisers, fleet auxiliaries and support ships. Crew and aircraft on the flight deck of the 'Fighting Lady' CV-10. The crew members relax and enjoy themselves in the water. They dive and jump off a makeshift platforms and diving boards into the ocean, and then swim and play around large floating rafts. Sailors sort letters in the ship's post office. Some write letters back home. The crew assembled on the ship deck. Commander of the ship Rear Admiral Joseph James 'Jacko' Clark briefs the crew about their mission, designation to Task Force 58, and advance towards Tokyo. The USS Yorktown and other carriers of the Task Force underway. Sign boards for various Ready Rooms on the ship. Air Group Commanders and pilots ready on call. Rear seat gunners and radio men on call in another Ready Room nearby. They talk, relax, drink Coca-Cola and have ice cream. Flags on board. Commander of the TF 58 Admiral Marc Andrew 'Pete' Mitscher and Skipper Clark on the flight deck. A poster for the ship board movie 'Home in Indiana'. Sailors watch the movie. Planes in flight through clouds, the Task Force underway seeking the Imperial Japanese Naval fleet. New cruisers, Coast Guard cutters and Navy Transports in the Task Force. The patrol spots a Imperial Japanese Navy search plane, a Kawanishi H8K flying boat called 'Emily' by the Allies. The plane fires at the Task Force ships before being hit and sinking in the water. U.S. officers and sailors in a discussion. An animated map depicts the objective to move towards and free the Mariana Islands.

Date: 1944, February
Duration: 7 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021562